AGE OF SAIL

Our latest short film project, Age of Sail, directed by Academy Award winner John Kahrs (Disney's Paperman short), is about an old sailor, Ian McShane, who is adrift in the Atlantic Ocean in 1900. We collaborated with Google Spotlight Stories and Boathouse Studios to build the VR experience and create animator-friendly tools. The VR experience debuted at the 2018 Venice Film Festival. We are especially proud of our work to create the 2D, theatrical version of the film for Oscar consideration. It took home an Annie for Production Design (Celine Desrumaux & Jasmin Lai), a VES Award for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Real-Time Project, and an MPSE for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing.  One of the best things about VR is to ‘shoot out’ the 2D version of a film by designing camera layout in an entire 3D world. We took that all the way to rendering and running the digital intermediate here in our theater. Age of Sail is available in theatrical on YouTube, in VR on Steam, as well as 3 DoF mobile on iOS and Android.